Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cappanakeady, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanakeady
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Conans Well
- Coordinates
- 52.77073, -8.39776
- SMR number
- TN031-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a slight hollow on a N-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a modern road directly to the N. A natural spring well enclosed by a drystone wall surround. Votive offerings are visible and there is a broken statue in an aumbry over the well.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.